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    Posted: 28 June 2007 at 4:14pm
My uni gave me a free copy through the academic alliance.  I get a genuine CD key and download the ISO to burn onto DVD from their site.

Anyway I'm not particullary bothered about it, does anyone know if I'm allowed to sell it?  Or does anyone know about any special academic alliance T&C?
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i dont think u can sell it..all volume, bulk and OEM licenses are non transferable. In your case i think the license is tied to condition of being student of specfic university. Ofcourse if you don't care about the law you can as you please with it...

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sell it... vista sucks!
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There would be conditions on your liense as MS license are very strict.

They have sent me 10 x licenses of Windows Vista Buiness but can only use them internally.

Upgraded (or should I say downgraded) to Vista last January and wish I hadn't, as it just annoying slow even on a Core2 Due system with 2 gig of RAM and using the Windows Vista Basic interface as Areo is crap. As soon as I get some spare time will be going back to XP as Vista doesn't offer anything I can't do allot quicker under XP.


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Same thing with me. I upgraded (or as you say... downgraded) to Vista and it was the worst mistake I could have made. Less than a week later I was reformatting my hard drive to install XP again. Vista is still a long way from being a reliable OS.
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It's reliable enough as I have been running it for over 6 months and working on it at least 12 hours Monday to Friday, and it has only crashed once. Not had any drivers issues either.

The only issue is the speed, if it could work a bit faster I would be happy with it. The constant pausing while it thinks what to do next drive me up the wall.

If I was a patient person and didn't have a ton of work to get through I would be happy as it has everything XP has.


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I too am running Vista on a Core2Duo and have to say there are not performance snags for me, even with Aero enabled. It runs very fast. There are still some "quirks" granted but I prefer it over XP by now.
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First time I hear positive news about it. I installed it as soon as the final version came out. Most of my software and drivers didn't work. I was almost forced to re-install XP again so I could actually get some work done.
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